Essays about: "realism and cold war"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 20 essays containing the words realism and cold war.

  1. 1. The Arctic in Transition : Great Power Competition at the End of the Post-Cold War Order

    University essay from Försvarshögskolan

    Author : Malin Ridström; [2024]
    Keywords : the Arctic; Russia; China; the United States; great power behaviour; offensive realism; defensive realism; power transition theory; grand strategy; qualitative content analysis; Arctic exceptionalism;

    Abstract : This study uses defensive realism, offensive realism and power transition theory (PTT) in order to examine the great powers’ grand strategies in the Arctic region, aiming to recontextualise the security theatre in the Arctic as a reflection of the return of great power politics and the end of Arctic exceptionalism, and to examine the explanatory power of the different strands of realism on the great power behaviour identified in their Arctic strategies. The study is conducted using qualitative content analysis and utilises Jacob Westberg’s theorisation of grand strategies through the categories of context, ends, means and ways as analytical framework, to which the theoretical framework is applied. READ MORE

  2. 2. The Dynamics of the NATO expansion to the Baltic states : A study about NATO with a focus on the United States from a Realism perspective

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST)

    Author : Pontus Jaktlund Gunnarsson; [2023]
    Keywords : United States; Russia; Realism; NATO; International Relations; Foreign Policy; Baltic States; Qualitative Text Analysis;

    Abstract : During the Cold War, NATO had proved itself successful in protecting the West. Therefore, NATO was seen as an organization that had the potential of maintaining security, democracy and peace. It has been repeatedly suggested that the US promised Russia no more NATO expansion. A promise which was broken in the 90s. READ MORE

  3. 3. The Ambiguity of the Russian Measures in Outer Space

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för statsvetenskap (ST)

    Author : Francesca Feltrin; [2023]
    Keywords : Outer Space; Russia; Militarization; Weaponization; Offensive Realism; Balance of Power;

    Abstract : Outer Space has been a contested domain since the Cold War but in the past few decades with the advancement of technology, it has become even more desirable. Outer space has become extremely important in our everyday lives from satellite telecommunications, television broadcasting, weather forecasting, and navigation. READ MORE

  4. 4. Comrades Aligned - A Framework of Alignment Towards Unravelling Modern Chinese-Russian Strategic Cooperation

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för informatik och media; Uppsala universitet/Institutet för Rysslands- och Eurasienstudier

    Author : Michael Watson-Conneely; [2023]
    Keywords : Russia; China; alignment; international relations; alliance theory; congruence analysis; multipolarity; balance of power; case study; foreign policy; strategic cooperation;

    Abstract : Since the end of the Cold War, modern Russian and Chinese relations have been characterized by strategic defense, economic, and diplomatic cooperation. This strategic cooperation has become increasingly coordinated, with the motives behind Russo-Sino cooperation increasingly becoming the focus of academic debate. READ MORE

  5. 5. The European Union and its economic relations with Russia between 1992 - 2022 : A case study of the energy dependency through the approach of the taxonomy of power

    University essay from Linköpings universitet/Statsvetenskap

    Author : Anna Österberg; [2022]
    Keywords : EU-Russia relations; gas dependency; taxonomy of power; structural realism; liberalism;

    Abstract : The history between the European Union and Russia has been one of interest for the entire world. With the growth in the relationship after the Cold War, it has become one exhaustive field of research and existing literature. READ MORE